21 Celebrity Weddings That Shaped How We Celebrate Marriage

8.Will and Jada Pinkett Smith

What They Shaped: The New Year’s Eve Wedding

As the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve 1997, Will and Jada Pinkett Smith appeared in all-white clothes (the bride in a high-neck Badgley Mischka gown in soft velvet, the groom in a white suit) for their wedding at the Cloisters in Baltimore, the bride’s hometown. Pinkett was three months pregnant at the time and had a clear vision for her wedding: “simple but elegant,” according to their coordinator David Weinschel. It’s also reasonable to say that the Smiths pulled off one of the best New Year’s Eve surprises among celebrity couples.